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Undated: Rod Jay Rosenstein (born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney serving as United States Deputy Attorney General since 2017. Prior to his current appointment, he served as a United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.[3] At the time of his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General in April 2017, he was the nation's longest-serving U.S. Attorney.[4] Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007, but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein
-- 2017 --
May 18: Can senators share what they learn in classified Rosenstein briefing [regarding firing of James Comey]? ... Senators are generally highly aware of what they are allowed to say when leaving a sensitive briefing like this. Disclosure of classified information is against the law and many senators are wary to talk to reporters when for fear they will accidentally reveal secrets. Other senators, especially those who deal regularly with classified national security information, are more comfortable and will discuss non-classified information with the press, something that helps them shape the narrative of a given issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/classified-briefing-senators-rosenstein/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
May 18: So confident was [Trump] of his own immunity to convention that he once boasted he could shoot someone in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose voters. But as President, that impunity has been challenged and Trump's behavior became a liability. Ultimately, had he not fired [FBI Director James] Comey in a fit of pique about the Russia investigation, it might never [have] emerged that he reportedly asked the FBI chief to cool it in his investigation. And [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein's hand may not have been forced and Trump may not have faced a special counsel [Robert Mueller].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-democracy/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
-- 2018 --
April 12: The firing of James Comey happened without warning. After fuming about the FBI director during a May 2017 weekend trip, President Trump dismissed Comey in a shocking fashion. There was no time for other political actors, law enforcement officials, the commentariat, or the general public to prepare or to figure out how to react. Many people struggled to digest the implications over the following days amid shifting presidential stories about what had happened and why he had taken the action.
If the president fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, no one can plead a similar lack of notice. The warnings have been ample.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/six-takeaways-trumps-threats-against-rod-rosenstein
May 31: Trump Wanted Rosenstein to Give More Obstruction-y Reason for Comey Firing
If you’re looking for evidence that President Trump may have obstructed justice, there are around two dozen different incidents to choose from.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/trump-asked-rosenstein-to-make-comey-memo-more-obstruction-y.html
September 24: Trump, Rosenstein, and the inevitable end of the Mueller probe
https://theweek.com/articles/797812/trump-rosenstein-inevitable-end-mueller-probe
October 8: Trump Says He Has No Plans to Fire Rod Rosenstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rosenstein-trump-travel-florida.html
October 9: Soon after Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein suggested using a wiretap to record President Trump’s communications, then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe went to the bureau’s top lawyer seeking advice on what he had just heard.
Rosenstein, McCabe told the lawyer, wanted to furtively record the president to help explore whether Trump had obstructed justice. How, McCabe asked, should the FBI respond to the outlandish proposition?
The lawyer, James Baker, dismissed the idea, according to people familiar with the episode who described it to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. But importantly, Baker told congressional investigators last week that the deputy attorney general’s suggestion was presented to him by senior FBI officials as being serious — raising questions about Rosenstein’s assertions to the contrary, the people said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rosenstein-faces-congressional-confrontation-amid-new-claim-he-seriously-suggested-wiretapping-trump/2018/10/09/711acccc-cbd4-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?noredirect=on
November 28: President Trump on Wednesday defended sharing an image on Twitter showing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with Trump critics behind bars.
When asked in an interview with the New York Post why he shared the image of Rosenstein behind bars, Trump said, “He should have never picked a special counsel.”
The image also depicts former Presidents Clinton and Obama, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, for Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/418811-trump-defends-sharing-photo-of-rosenstein-behind-bars-he-should-have
December 6: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other top Justice Department officials opened an obstruction of justice investigation into President Trump himself in the week after he fired then-FBI Director James Comey in an attempt to rein him in, according to a report published late Thursday.
At the direction of then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the DOJ secretly opened a probe into Trump because they were worried about his attempts to control other government operations, including his telling Comey to stop looking into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, CNN reported.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mccabe-rosenstein-opened-secret-obstruction-probe-into-trump-after-he-told-comey-to-drop-flynn-investigation-report
-- 2019 --
February 8: Rosenstein did not want to write memo justifying Comey firing – new book
Deputy attorney general privately complained about Trump’s order, according to Comey’s former deputy Andrew McCabe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/08/rosenstein-did-not-want-to-write-memo-justifying-comey-firing-new-book
-- 2020 --
